NOTICE: Revised Commercial Membership Agreement regarding your accounts and services.
The credit union revised your Commercial Membership Account Agreement and Disclosures. The following note the most substantive changes, but not all the changes. Please read the whole of your Agreement which can be found on our website: www.greenvillefcu.com. We will provide you a printed copy, if you wish, by contacting the credit union at a branch office or by telephone at 800.336.6309 or by mailing us your request. All changes take effect 30 days after 06/31/2021, which is the date this Change of Terms notice is provided to all members.
Bank
Secrecy Act; PATRIOT Act; Due Diligence: You agree to help us fight crime and fraud,
including the funding of terrorism, illegal drug trafficking and illegal human
trafficking, money laundering, and identity theft. You agree to help us comply
with all laws, including the Bank Secrecy Act, PATRIOT Act, and our due
diligence obligations within those laws. All financial institutions are
required to obtain from you, and all persons with an interest in an account,
their name, physical address, date of birth, and Tax Identification Number. We
will request documentation confirming this information when your credit union
membership is established. Additionally, we will ask you questions about the
types of services you need and the transactions you plan to conduct which will
help us establish appropriate services that best suit your stated needs. Once
you become a member, we are obligated to monitor your transaction activity and
assess whether your transaction activity fits the services we offer and your
stated needs. You agree to cooperate and answer our questions about your
transaction activity, including current employment and sources of income;
sources of cash deposits; specific transaction frequency, amounts, and duration;
and your knowledge of those you do transactions with and why you conduct those
transactions, etc.
Virtual
Currency: We may limit the frequency or amount of transactions
involving virtual currencies. We reserve the right to reject
transactions regarding any type of virtual currency (crypto-currency) services
and may close your account if we believe your account is a regulatory
monitoring burden. Virtual/crypto currency transactions associated with
incoming and outgoing wire activity, incoming and outgoing ACH activity,
privately owned ATM activity, incoming and outgoing credit and debit card
activity, etc., can become particular concerns. (Refer to Termination or
Restriction of Account(s) and Service(s)).
“Actual Balance” and “Available
Balance”:
How do we determine your Account’s available balance: Your Actual Balance is
the total amount of money in your account at a specific point in time. The
Actual Balance does not take into account outstanding transactions authorized
by you, but which have not yet posted to the Account. The Actual Balance may
not always be a reliable indication of what you may spend without overdrawing
your account.
The
Available Balance is the total amount of funds in your account less holds
placed on deposits and less holds on debit card authorizations not yet
presented for payment. While an Available Balance shows as immediately
available for use, it may not always depict an accurate display of what you may
spend without overdrawing your account. For example: You have an Actual Balance
of $75 and an Available Balance of $75. You then swipe your debit card at the
grocery store and an authorization for your purchase is given for $25. The $25
transaction is now on hold in your Account against the $75 Actual Balance.
Since we are obligated to pay the merchant, even if your checking account is
negative at the time the transaction is presented to us by the merchant, we
will reduce your available balance by the $25 authorized amount. Your Actual
Balance would still be $75 because this transaction has not yet posted, but
your Available Balance would be $50 because you have authorized a $25 payment
to the grocer. When the grocer (merchant) submits the request for payment, your
Actual Balance will then be reduced by the amount of the posted transaction and
both your current and available balance will be $50, provided additional
charges and transactions have not been made. If you exceed the Available
Balance (even though the Actual Balance may be greater), you may overdraw your
account since transactions are posted against the Available Balance. This may
result in Insufficient Funds transactions, Courtesy Pay fees, Returned Items and
Fees, and Overdraft Protection Fees as a result of exceeding your Available
Balance. To know the Available Balance, you may verify your list of outstanding
transactions by updating your transaction register, signing into Online
Banking, or calling the Credit Union’s Contact Center. It is important to
understand the order in which your transactions are paid as explained in the “Transactions
from Your Account(s)” section to avoid making transactions that exceed your
Available Balance.
We
use your Available Balance to determine when your account is overdrawn prior to
assessing Non Sufficient Funds fees or Courtesy Pay Fees. The following is an
example: Your Actual Balance and Available Balance are both $100. You use your
debit card for a $70 purchase, the merchant requests an authorization, and a
hold is placed against the $70 Available Balance making your Available Balance
$30. Your Actual Balance still shows as $100. Before the merchant sends the
transaction to us for payment, a $35 check you wrote clears your checking
account. Because you only have $30 available when the check is presented, your
account will be overdrawn by $5, even though your Actual Balance shows $100. In
this case, we may pay the $35 check, but you will be charged a Courtesy Pay
fee, even though your Actual Balance exceeds the amount of the transaction. The
fee will be deducted from your account, further reducing your Available
Balance. When the merchant requests payment for the $70 debit card transaction,
your Available Balance no longer has sufficient funds to cover it. Assuming you
have opted-in to the program, this will result in a Courtesy Pay fee for the
$70 transaction even though your Available Balance was sufficient at the time
the authorization for the transaction was approved.
YOU
MAY STILL OVERDRAW YOUR ACCOUNT EVEN THOUGH THE AVAILABLE BALANCE APPEARS TO
SHOW THERE ARE SUFFICIENT FUNDS TO COVER A TRANSACTION YOU WANT TO MAKE. Your Available
Balance does not reflect your outstanding checks, automatic bill payments, or
any other outstanding transactions that have not been paid from your account.
These items will not be reflected in your Available Balance until presented to
us and paid from your account. Holds on deposits may not be reflected, as
described in our Funds Availability Policy.
In
addition, your Available Balance may not reflect all of your pending debit card
transactions. For example, if a merchant obtains an authorization but does not
submit the debit card transaction for payment within three (3) business days
after the authorization is given, we may increase your Available Balance by the
amount of that authorization. This means your Available Balance will no longer
reflect the pending transaction until the transaction has been received by us
and posted to your account. Although clearing times for debit card transactions
may range from 0-5 days, merchants choose the system by which they process
their transactions and how frequently they do so (often a decision based on the
lowest cost to them). The Credit Union has no control over how and when
transactions are presented to us to be paid.
Even though we may increase your Available Balance when a merchant does not submit the transaction for payment within 3 business days, the obligation to the merchant still applies. The time period for authorizations may be different for certain types of merchants.
NOTE: Holds placed on your account balance for pending debit card/electronic transactions, including gasoline, hotels, car rentals, etc., may reduce your available balance for an amount that may vary from the actual purchase amount, which may or may not be presented for payment. These same holds also reduce the available funds for subsequent purchases. Failing to account for outstanding items may cause your account to become overdrawn and fees assessed. Why is this Important to You? The order in which items are paid is important if there are not enough available funds in your account to pay all of the items presented for payment. Our payment policy may cause your larger, more important items, (such as your rent or mortgage payment), to not be paid first, but may reduce the amount of overdraft or NSF fees you have to pay if funds are not available to pay all of the items. If an item is presented without sufficient available funds in your account to pay it, we may, at our discretion, pay the item (creating an overdraft) or return the item (NSF). The Credit Union does not have to notify you prior to paying an item, regardless of the availability of funds. We encourage you to keep careful records of all transactions (debits & credits) and practice good account management. This will help you avoid writing checks or share drafts without sufficient available funds and incurring overdraft fees.
Transaction Limitations for All Share Savings (Non-Transaction) Accounts—Regulation D: In April 2020 the federal government suspended Regulation D non-transaction account transaction prohibitions but can reinstate them at any time. Until such time, the Credit Union will not enforce the Regulation D prohibitions on non-transaction accounts. Non-transaction accounts do have transaction limits as noted in the Schedule which are not associated with Regulation D. [The following information is provided for your information—Pursuant to federal Regulation D, during any calendar month you may not make more than six withdrawals or transfers to another Credit Union account of yours or to a third party by means of a preauthorized, automatic, telephonic, Online Banking, or audio response transfer or instruction. A preauthorized transfer includes any arrangement with us to pay a third party from your account upon oral or written orders, including orders received through ACH. Transfers/withdrawals in excess of the transfer/withdrawal limitations described in Regulation D may be subject to a Regulation D excessive transaction fee as set forth in the Schedule. For accounts in which activity violates these monthly limits, we may return each item that exceeds the monthly limit and charge you a fee for its return without notice to you. Additionally, continued abuse of the non-transaction account Regulation D rules allows us to close the account. If payment is made directly to the depositor, you may make an unlimited number of withdrawals from these accounts in person, by mail, at an ATM, or by telephone if the withdrawal is mailed to you in a check. There is no limit on the number of transfers you may make to any loan account(s) with us.]
Using Third-Party Apps or Payment Services: If you link any of your accounts or services to a third-party app or payment service (including but not limited to PayPal, Zelle, Venmo) you understand and agree that these are not Credit Union services. Any transactions you make through the third-party app or payment service will be subject to your agreements with the third-party app or payment service provider. You understand such apps and services do not provide you the same protections from fraud or other misapplication of funds as traditional, direct credit union or other banking services. If we transfer any funds as directed by you or anyone you authorize through the third-party app or payment service provider, such transfer(s) shall in all respects be an authorized transaction and we will have no further obligation or liability if the third-party app or payment service provider then transfers the funds to a fraudster or the funds are otherwise misapplied. Further, you understand that funds transferred to/via a third-party app or payment service may not be federally or otherwise insured and you assume all risks should your funds become unavailable for any reason.